You misunderstood what I said by diminishing returns. They’re clearly important to you. The further away you get from that level of hardcore enthusiast, the more like you’re going to find people who don’t find those features to be important compared to a game that runs better and with fewer bugs, let alone how they affect the actual game design. No game is immune from criticism, and people can and will criticize it for all of these things and its business model. If I’m a person who paid $45 because I wanted to play Squadron 42, which at the time I believed was a game releasing in 2016, how do you expect me to not criticize them for taking 7 more years and still not having it done when it’s a much smaller scope than the MMO that they’re building?

Stop trying to make it out like we’re rubes who got a fast one pulled on us

Once again: I did not say this. You are arguing with me about things other people said. Argue with them.